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1 Larsen, K.; Kim, R.; Theus, F. (Eds.) 2009. Agribusiness and innovation systems in Africa. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 214p. (Agriculture and Rural Development)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.1096 G100 LAR Record No: H043434)
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3 Briscoe, J. 2010. Water security: what is the challenge and what needs to be done? In University of Nebraska, Lincoln Office of Research and Economic Development. Proceedings of the 2010 Water for Food Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2-5 May 2010. Lincoln, NE, USA: University of Nebraska. pp.45-48.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G000 UNI Record No: H043814)
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4 European Commission. 1998. Towards sustainable water resources management: a strategic approach. Brussels, Belgium: European Commission. 351p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 EUR Record No: H043894)
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5 World Bank. 2006. Reengaging in agricultural water management: challenges and options. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 218p. (Directions in Development)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 WOR Record No: H044061)
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6 Murray, Ashley; Mekala, G. D.; Chen, X. 2011. Evolving policies and the roles of public and private stakeholders in wastewater and faecal-sludge management in India, China and Ghana. Water International, 36(4):491-504. (Special issue on "Wastewater use in agriculture: economics, risks and opportunities" with contributions by IWMI authors). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2011.594868]
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In this article the authors document evolving attitudes, policies and roles of stakeholders in wastewater and faecal-sludge management in India, China and Ghana. In each country there is momentum for expanding not just access to sanitation at the household/community levels, but also for greater treatment and safe end-of-life management of human excreta. Governments are increasingly looking to engage the private sector, but models of engagement that make a compelling business case and instil confidence in cost recovery will have to emerge before the private sector takes an active role in wastewater and faecal sludge treatment in low-income countries.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H044199)
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Opportunities for public–private partnerships based on cost recovery from the reuse of human waste remain unexplored. In this paper, the authors present four potential business models involving aquaculture, biogas recovery, compost production and the use of faecal sludge as an industrial fuel, and describe their associated financial flows. The business models are based on efficiency indicators that can provide decision support to local authorities and entrepreneurs in choosing options that are best suited to local conditions and needs. The ultimate target should be that a portion of revenues from reuse can help finance less-profitable sections of the sanitation service chain.
8 2011. Wastewater use in agriculture: economics, risks and opportunities. Water International, 36(4): 133p. (Special issue on "Wastewater use in agriculture: economics, risks and opportunities" with contributions by IWMI authors).
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: PER Record No: H044202)
9 World Water Assessment Programme. 2009. Water in a changing world. Paris, France: UNESCO; London, UK: Earthscan. 318p. (United Nations World Water Development Report 3)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 WOR Record No: H044222)
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10 Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Erkossa, Teklu; Balcha, Y. (Comps.) 2011. Irrigation and water for sustainable development: proceedings of the Second Forum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15-16 December 2008. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 264p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044259)
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11 Demisse, B.; Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Adenew, B.; Mengiste, A. 2011. Creating extension service delivery through public-private partnership. In Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Erkossa, Teklu; Balcha, Y. (Comps.). Irrigation and water for sustainable development: proceedings of the Second Forum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15-16 December 2008. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.74-77.
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12 Shah, Tushaar. 2011. Past, present, and the future of canal irrigation in India. In Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited (IDFC). India infrastructure report 2011 - water: policy and performance for sustainable development. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. pp.69-89.
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Effective implementation of participatory environmental governance faces a number of challenges, including the need for appropriate mechanisms and incentive systems that can operate across multiple-use landscapes. This study demonstrated scenarios for such governance from three agro-ecological zones in different geographical, biophysical and socio-cultural settings: (i) Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary in the temperate forests of the Central Himalayas, (ii) Kolleru Lake, a freshwater lake in the Krishna Basin and (iii) the downstream Ganges seasonal floodplains in Bangladesh. The cross-disciplinary set of approaches in these examples involves the use of spatial tools and socioeconomic surveys to build a scenario-based framework with cross-scaling prospects. The comparative analysis between these sites is significant in the context of providing guidance for trans-boundary environmental governance and the underlying challenges that occur in politically complex and common property resource institutional arrangements. Meeting these challenges will assist in the efforts, locally and nationally, to make wise use of all wetlands, as required under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary symbolizes a case of increasing anthropogenic pressure, limited livelihood options and with gaps in the governance structure. Kolleru Lake represents a case of inadequate understanding of the ecological dimensions of livelihood interventions and the consequential community conflict. The case of floodplains in Bangladesh illustrates the potential of collective action, supported by appropriate institutional arrangements, for improving rice-fish productivity. The case studies support the argument that monitoring and assessment of the resource structure and its dynamics, with the application of geospatial tools, adds value when shaping a framework for policy debate and for ensuring the wise use of wetlands.
14 World Bank. 2012. Agricultural innovation systems: an investment sourcebook. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 658p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630.7 G000 WOR Record No: H044794)
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Asia accounts for 70% of the world’s irrigated area and is home to some of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes. While these irrigation schemes played an important role in ensuring food security for billions of people in the past, their current state of affairs leaves much to be desired. This paper takes forward the IWMI–FAO–ADB (Asian Development Bank) recommendation of a five pronged approach for revitalizing Asia’s irrigation and provides a region specific road map for doing this. The underlying principle of these multiple strategies is the belief that the public institutions at the heart of irrigation management in Asia need to give up comfortable rigidity and engage with individual users’ needs and the demands placed by larger societal chang.
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With growing scarcity and competition for water, urban wastewater is increasingly marketable because of its water and nutrient values. Commodification has implications for the current “residual” uses of wastewater (particularly by poor farmers in developing countries), for the risk of disease transmission, and for wastewater-dependent agro-ecosystems. Using examples from Pakistan, India, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mexico, and the United States, this paper contrasts commodification as it occurs in the developed and developing worlds and demonstrates the need for public information and coherent institutional frameworks, including private- and public-sector participation.
18 Damen, B.; Tvinnereim, S. (Eds.) 2012. Sustainable bioenergy in Asia: improving resilience to high food prices and climate change. Selected papers from a conference held in Bangkok from 1 to 2 June 2011. Bangkok, Thailand: FAO. 105p. (Regional Conference for Asia and The Pacific (RAP) Publication 2012/14)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045193)
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A ‘farmer-centric’ innovative institutional mechanism, a public-private partnership, was created and strengthened, in the Fergana valley of Central Asia, for facilitating communication between farmers and researchers, and to disseminate knowledge on improved agronomic and irrigation management practices to improve water productivity at field level. As a result, yields of cotton from the twenty five demonstration sites in the three countries of Fergana valley - Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – were, on the average, 28% higher than the average yield of cotton in the valley, suggesting that the proposed institutional mechanism was very effective in dissemination of information to farmers. Yields from neighboring farmers of demonstration fields were 14% higher than the average yields. In addition, demonstration site farmers used, on the average, 20% less water than the non-project farmers. Two independent external reviewers stated that this innovative public-private mechanism was very effective in disseminating information on improving water productivity at plot level to farmers, and suggested that the focus in the future should be on devising effective policy and economic instruments for financial sustainability of the innovation cycle after the donor support is withdrawn.
20 Chu, J. M. 2012. A blue revolution for Zambia?: large-scale irrigation projects and land and water 'grabs' In Allan, T.; Keulertz, M.; Sojamo, S.; Warner, J. (Eds.). Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa: foreign direct investment and food and water security. London, UK: Routledge. pp.207-220.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 ALL Record No: H045680)
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